Gr 3-5 Calling All Communities

Wouldn't it be nice for students to learn about communities all over the world? For this collaboration students will share with each other facts and information about their community. 


Some topics to discuss would be:
1. Where your community is located
2. When was it established
3. Climate
4. Landforms/Plants/Animals/Region
5. Places of Interest
6. Things to for fun.

If you are interested please email me at mredle@stmatthewparish.net

Dates:

March 2012

Meghan Redle mmr014@msn.com St. Matthew Parish School

Collaborating on Literature (English-Tenth Grade)

Hello! My name is Jennifer Conroy, and I am an English teacher in upstate New York (USA). I teach tenth grade, and am looking for a fellow English teacher who would be interested in collaborating on a book together. I am excited about the opportunity to have my students work with peers from around the world, and enjoy integrating technology into my lessons. I plan to teach John Knowles, A Separate Peace in March, followed by Macbeth in April or May, and perhaps the The Giver, by Lois Lowry in June. I am of course open to other books or ideas. If collaborating on a particular piece of literature isn't feasible, I would be open to the idea of crafting a collaborative writing unit. Please send me a message if you are interested!

Dates:

March 2012-June 2012

Jennifer Conroy
jconroy@liverpool.k12.ny.us
LIVERPOOL HS

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Gr 9-12 International Criminal Court

We are having an International Tournament - International Criminal Court as part of a pilot program for the Texas Youth and Government, World Class Schools and International Mock Trials.

We are also working with Guatemala YMCA, The University of Vermont, and several other organizations.

We are looking to work on Case 1 and 3 for this spring.

We will try case 3 during the week of April 16-19, 2012 - We need schools for defense on this one

We will try case 1 during the week of April 30, May 1, May 2 We need schools for both prosecution and defense

We are trying to have volunteer judges from several different colleges. We would like to have the briefs sent to the judges before we start the arguments.


Format Rules

Two attorneys per team
Each attorney will have 15 minutes to present their arguments
30 Minutes per side
Prosecution may reserve 2 minutes of their time for rebuttal
The judge(s) may ask question throughout your arguments.
There are no objections- lawyers present evidence of their arguments and are cross examined by the judges.

We realize that these rules are a little different than other ICC organizations. We are trying for educational purposes to run this in a very timely manner and to optimize the learning for each of the participants.

Please email me back to tell me which ones you would like participate in and what times you can participate.

Dates:	April 16-19 and April 30, May 1, May 2
Sign up method:	Exploding Collaboration (Registered through CAPSpace at http://projects.twice.cc)
Grades:	9, 10, 11, 12
Subjects:	Business, Career Education, Family & Consumer Science, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Science (Earth), Social Studies/History, World Language

Michael Cunningham
mcunningham@del-valle.k12.tx.us
Phone: 512-386-3231
DEL VALLE H S

Gr 1 State Knowledge:

We do a huge Texas unit in late February and early March.  We would like to find a 1st grade class in another state that we can share information and pictures.  Students can share the state motto, state flag, state flower, regions,  weather, etc.  Students could also write about what they learned about the other state.  It would be fun to exchange state postcards before the event. We would like to video conference on March 6th.


Trisha Goins
trisha.goins@gcisd.net
Phone: 817-251-5770
TIMBERLINE EL

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